Radio New Bloom #1: Interview With Shawna Yang Ryan (楊小娜)

NEW BLOOM presents its first ever podcast! “Radio New Bloom” will be a bimonthly podcast covering topical events and interviewing Taiwanese social activists, artists, public intellectuals, and others in order to make Taiwanese voices better known in the international world.

Our first interview guest is Shawna Yang Ryan (楊小娜), the author of Green Island, with whom we discussed the recent phone call between Tsai Ing-Wen and Donald Trump and the exclusion of Taiwanese voices in international responses to the phone call. We’d like to thank Shawna for the interview, as well as LTK Commune for allowing us to use their song “Good Night, Taiwan” as part of the podcast!

Note: This podcast was recorded prior to Donald Trump’s inauguration as American president.

About New Bloom

New Bloom is an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific, founded in Taiwan in 2014 in the wake of the Sunflower Movement. We seek to put local voices in touch with international discourse, beginning with Taiwan.